Netherlands: Key Welfare Indicators promote responsible poultry practices globally

Published 2023년 5월 29일

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The International Poultry Welfare Alliance (IPWA) has introduced the Key Welfare Indicators (KWI) Guides for broilers, layers, and turkeys to help assess and enhance poultry welfare. Developed in partnership with poultry companies, welfare experts, customers, and animal welfare organizations, these guides aim to set challenging welfare standards and encourage continuous improvement. The guides focus on outcome-based measures to accurately assess bird welfare and provide a valuable tool for companies to enhance welfare outcomes in the poultry production chain. Accessible online, they are designed to be used globally to ensure that poultry welfare is prioritized and that the needs of the birds are met in a transparent and sustainable food system.

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The International Poultry Welfare Alliance (IPWA) has launched Key Welfare Indicators (KWI) Guides for broilers, layers, and turkeys. Each guide has been developed to provide a practical framework for assessing and improving the welfare of poultry. The Key Welfare Indicators Guides were developed in collaboration between poultry companies, academics with a welfare focus, customers, and animal welfare organisations to ensure that poultry welfare is protected and to encourage the continuous improvement of poultry welfare throughout the poultry production chain. The International Poultry Welfare Alliance notes that continuous improvement in welfare is a journey, and there is an opportunity to do better. The guides, it says, therefore, focus on how to incorporate welfare assessments into poultry management to drive improvements. The Key Welfare Indicators are a set of measures selected by a multistakeholder group of welfare experts that have a scientifically proven, clear, and ...

Source: Poultryworld